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By John Krige

In 1945, the USA used to be not just the most powerful monetary and armed forces strength on this planet; it was once additionally the world's chief in technology and know-how. In American Hegemony and the Postwar Reconstruction of technological know-how in Europe, John Krige describes the efforts of influential figures within the usa to version postwar clinical practices and associations in Western Europe on these in the US. They mobilized political and monetary help to advertise not only America's clinical and technological agendas in Western Europe yet its chilly conflict political and ideological agendas as well.Drawing at the paintings of diplomatic and cultural historians, Krige argues that this test at clinical dominance through the us could be noticeable as a kind of "consensual hegemony," regarding the collaboration of influential neighborhood elites who shared American values. He makes use of this thought to research a chain of case reviews that describe how the U.S. management, senior officials within the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations, the NATO technological know-how Committee, and influential participants of the medical institution -- particularly Isidor I. Rabi of Columbia college and Vannevar Bush of MIT -- attempted to Americanize medical practices in such fields as physics, molecular biology, and operations examine. He info U.S. aid for associations together with CERN, the Niels Bohr Institute, the French CNRS and its laboratories at Gif close to Paris, and the never-established "European MIT." Krige's examine indicates how consensual hegemony in technology not just served the pursuits of postwar ecu reconstruction yet turned differently of preserving American management and "making the area secure for democracy."

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